Wizards and Scientists : Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition


Stephan. Palmié
Bok Engelsk 2002 · Electronic books.
Medvirkende
Utgitt
Durham : : Duke University Press, , 2002.
Omfang
1 online resource (413 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Evidence and Presence, Spectral and Other; Introduction; 1. ''For Reasons of History'': José Antonio Aponteand His Libro de Pinturas; 2. Genealogies of Morality: The Afro-Cuban Ngangaas Wage Laborer, Slave, and Maroon; 3. Una Salación Científica: The Work of Witchcraftand Science in Cuban Modernity; Epilogue: Carnal Knowledge; Appendix: Aponte's Library; Notes; References; Permissions; Index. - Questions the disciplinary assumptions of history and anthropology, and Western claims to "own" modernity, using Cuba and Afro-Cuban religion as a case study.
Emner
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Dewey
ISBN
0822328283. - 0822328429

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